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Katherine Bowie’s new book, Of Beggars and Buddhas: The Politics of Humor in the “Vessantara Jataka” in Thailand has just been published by the University of Wisconsin Press, 2017). The Vessantara Jataka is the most famous …

This summer, in a unique collaboration, a team from the University of Wisconsin–Madison recovered wreckage and possible human remains from a site in France where an American pilot crashed during World War II.

A team of ethnographers headed by our own alumna Tanya Rodriguez (PhD 2012) has been featured recently in Fortune, Forbes, and Bloomberg News. If you want to see why large corporations like Hormel have turned to anthropologists, …